The Castle gavotte

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Throughout NYPL's research collections, dance images are available for study. Since 1944, a special unit devoted to collecting, preserving, creating and accessing dance documentation has developed into the Jerome Robbins Dance Division at the Library for the Performing Arts, Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center at Lincoln Center. This particular digital presentation will continue to grow over time, featuring the department's iconographic file of historical prints and photographs of dancers.

Collection Data

Description: Numerous photographs of Irene and Vernon Castle, mostly dancing, clipped from anonymous periodicals and pasted in a scrapbook, further illustrated with text describing or announcing the names of the dances, including the Castle gavotte and the Castle fox trot.
Names: Hill, Ira L. (Ira Lawrence) (Photographer)
Dates / Origin: Date Created: 1920 (Questionable)
Library locations: Jerome Robbins Dance Division; Shelf locator: *MGZRS 79-3926 (Ball-room tap section)
Topics: Ballroom dancing -- United States -- 1911-1920; Castle, Vernon, 1887-1918; Castle, Irene, 1893-1969; Ballroom dancing -- Study and teaching; Foxtrot (Dance)
Genres: Scrapbooks; Clippings; Illustrations; Photographs
Notes: Funding: National Endowment for the Arts Millennium Project.; Content: Directions for the dance.; Content: Large format clippings; Content: With photographs of each step, especially posed by Mr. and Mrs. Castle--Continuation of printed title.; Content: Treasures of the American Performing Arts, 1875-1923
Physical Description: Extent: Photographic reproductions and text (4 p.) : black and white, some color-enhanced ; 35 cm.; Photomechanical prints
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: NYPY807015931-B; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b12193113; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f1f1f7f0-c60a-012f-aadc-58d385a7bc34